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-Evolving in Monkey Town by my good friend Rachel Held Evans
-Green Like God by Jonathan Merritt
-O Me of Little Faith by Jason Boyett
-Hear No Evil by Matthew Paul Turner
-The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder (I tried to read it a couple of years ago, but didn’t get it. Wasn’t until I picked it up again that I got it)
-A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren

Read:
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (still reading)

Want to Read in 2011:
Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee/Douglas Stuart
Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb
There is Always Enough by Heidi and Rolland Baker
When Heaven Invades Earth by Bill Johnson

…and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? but I might get to that one before the New Year😛 Have you read the Harry Potter books Pastor Eugene?

I take it we’ll see you at the 2011 Palmer Lecture @ SPU when Dr. Carter comes to town! Details below, just in case others want to go:

The School of Theology is excited to announce the 2011 Palmer Lecture on Thursday, January 27, given by Dr. J. Kameron Carter.

Dr. Carter teaches theology and black church studies at Duke University in the Department of Divinity. He has written Race: A Theological Account (New York: Oxford UP, 2008) and is finishing the upcoming book The Secular Jesus: Religion and the Project of Civilization (forthcoming, Yale University Press).

Dr. Carter’s work focuses on articulating a new religious and Christian social imagination for the 21st century. We cordially invite you to the Palmer Lecture presented by J. Kameron Carter.

Read/Re-read/Reading:The Story of Christianity by Justo Gonzalez – History was my worst subject in high school and college but this book on the history of the church was illuminating and written in a flowing, narrative style with surprisingly little bias.Systematic Theology: Perspectives from Liberation Theology edited by Jon Sobrino – this was my first introduction to liberation theology and while I have some issues, I found it a fascinating (and much needed) way to look at the Bible and doctrine.Sin: A History by Gary Anderson – amazing look at the metaphors we have used to describe sin (what it is and how it works) and how they have changed through time.

Books I enjoyed this past year:
The Rule of St. Benedict (Joan Chittister’s edition)
The Gospel According to Jesus by Chris Seay
In Constant Prayer by Robert Benson (part of Phyllis Tickle’s series on Ancient Practices)
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

Books to read:
new works by Stephen Lawhead
the rest of The Ancient Practices series
Markings by Dag Hamarskjold
Boundaries by Cloud & Townsent

By far my favorite book this year is a collection of essays, mostly about race, by Eula Biss, Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays. The author is a phenomenal writer. Thanks to your reminder I brought home my copy of Race by Carter to begin reading over the holidays.

C.S. Lewis. Till We Have Faces
Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight
Brandon Sanderson. The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings
Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities
Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge
Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men
Philip Schultz. Failure
Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front
Lisa Genova. Still Alice

Thanks for sharing your books and this opportunity to put me into re-think about books!

Best books for 2010

1. a New kind of Christianity by Brian McClaren
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe-I reread it after I read it when I was in Elementary school. Amazed by heartbreaking details and difference in views how white and black see Christianity.
3. Korean Book-욕쟁이 예수 by 박총(I highly recommend it for you!)
4. Another Korean book- 불편해도 괜찮아 by 김두식 (about human rights and movies.)

books for 2011

1. The God delusion by Richard Dokins
2. Reason, Faith and Evolution by Terry Eagleton.
3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. to kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
(3,4, will be the re-read. I can’t wait!)

What a great way to do a new years list! Makes you think about what you’ve been thinking about this year!

So… the best of 2010:
Obama – Dreams from My Father (which saved me from the incredibly dry “The Missional Leader” by Roxburgh and Romanuk but surprisingly covered a lot of the same sort of ground).
Ramsey – War and the Christian Conscience.
Marx & Engles – The Communist Manifesto (for the highs and lows!)

I read Evolving in Monkey Town, O Me of Little Faith, What the Dog Saw, and Why We Make Mistakes. All fascinating. Sorry to say, I actually disliked Song of Solomon (dislike is not a strong enough word.) This coming year, I’m most looking forward to reading Mark Twain’s autobiography. It’s been 100 years since his death, and vol. 1 has finally been published!

1. To change the world by James Davidson Hunter
2. The shaping of things to come by Micheal Frost and Alan Hirsch
3. When helping hurts: How to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire
5. Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
6. How to get Cliff Lee to travel coast to coast to coast with you by Bryan Todd

I also re-read “Catcher” this year, and it remains one of my favorite books of all time. =)

I also read a book called “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers this year that was extremely compelling and interesting. It’s a nonfiction narrative about a family that lived through Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; tells the story of survival, racism, faith and religion in a modern context, and it’s incredibly page-turning. I bought a copy just to lend out to friends.

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
The Coming Insurrection by the Invisible Committee
Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
The New Testament and the People of G-d by N.T. Wright
“Come Out My People!” G-d’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond by Wes Howard-Brook
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Forthcoming books to be read:
Consensus by Peter Gelderloos
Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks
Binding the Strong Man by Ched Myers
and I am sure many more!

[…] to pray. I read some scripture. And I read several pages from a Martin Luther King, Jr. book that I’m currently reading again and read this quote (again): When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, […]

Having read Catcher in the Rye once; I can’t imagine anyone reading it again. This has to be one of the most highly overrated books ever. No wonder Mr Salinger became a recluse? I would, also, be embarrassed to to be seen in public if I had written such tripe.

Hi Bill, Salinger didn’t become a recluse because he wrote the book. I think, for a large part, the book was an extension of himself. It exactly the type of ideals that Holden Caulfield values that would eventually lead to someone wanting to become a recluse. It has nothing to do with being embarrassed about writing that type of book. I am curious, however, why you didn’t like the book.

Actually, I know little-to-nothing about Mr Salinger. Safe to say that it wasn’t embarrassment over writing this book that caused him to become a recluse. I was being facetious. :):)

One word would describe why I disliked the book……….boring. I didn’t find it a well-written novel, but for some reason I continued reading till the end. Is it possible that the enamorment with Catcher In The Rye is that many relate to Holden Caulfield?? His story, apparently, resonates with many for some reason?

Bones of the Master by George Crane http://www.amazon.com/Bones-Master-Journey-Secret-Mongolia/dp/0553379089 is an interesting book that talks about the experiences of a Mongolian Monk Tsung Tsai, Buddhist who during the repression by the Chinese Regime during the “Great Leap Forward” which occurs around 1959+/- migrates on foot from Mongolia to Hong Kong! That is a long long route, it spans the whole nation of China in fact, North South. Government Troops raided the Monastery and kill the 110 year old venerable Master of the Monastery so Tsung Tsai flees to freedom. After that, Tsung Tsai eventually went to live in the State of New York, I think in fact, Woodstock. Also in the book, Crane who is Tsung Tsai’s neighbor and author of the book both go back to Mongolia some decades later. Even in Tsung Tsai’s early life, the Japanese invaded China when he was a kid and that was a real hard time too.

What’s interesting is Venerable Master Hsua Hua set up the City of 10,000 Buddhas in Northern California. He was at the same Monastery as Tsung Tsai in their youths. http://www.cttbusa.org

Secondly, a bit of a landmark book on Running is called Born to run. A different kind of running book, all I can say and reviews galore over at amazon so many people know of it already. Recently published in the past few years.